Improvement in sad-irons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. WHITING, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO VALTER TABER, OF AOUSHNET, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,068, dated February 23, 1375; application filed December 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES M. WHITING, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new,

useful, and Improved Sad-Iron and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is the perspective view; 2, a lateral view of the shoe to which the iron is attached. Fig. 3 is the end view, and Fig. 4c the point of the shoe.

In Fig. 1, a represents a cast-iron handle, and b b b 1) four steel springs, which enter the handle a in close proximity to each other, and diverge to the point of their entering the irons c 0, constituting a spring sufficient to hold the shoe E firmly While in use. D represents the horizontal center-piece of the shoe E, as seen in Fig. 2, which is clasped by the irons c 0 and held by the springs, as above described.

The irons c 0 being pressed onto said centerpiece, the iron is detached from the shoe by pressing 011 the heel of the same and raising the toe, as seen in Fig. 2.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The iron 0 0, divided in two parts horizontally, from heel to point, the steel springs b l) b b, and the handle a, the horizontal centerpiece D, formed on. the shoe E, combined substantially as and for the purposes described.

JAMES M. WHITING. YVitnesses:

EDGAR D. BURRILL, WALTER TABER. 

